Keyboard and Rudder: A blog on the Art of Flying

Demystifying the process of learning to fly for everyone from the beginning student to the certificated pilot looking to improve their skills. Heavy on the basics of stick and rudder skills, with unscheduled landings on other varied topics like weather and the sheer beauty and joy of flight.

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Godspeed, Goddard

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Words have lost much of their impact these days. The word "extreme" was one of the first to go. At one time, it meant something se...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

When being "stupid" is the smart thing to do

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I have accomplished many things during my COVID-19 time off. The clutter is slowly going away (do I really need that book on Unix written i...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

How to get better when you can't get better

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One of the memes that went around recently was the pilot working from home: While I can't fly an airplane right now, I am fortunate...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Taking the long way due to coronavirus

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It's Sunday, March 22, 2020, and I'm fat, dumb, and happy in my seat 33,000 feet in the air. I'm staring aimlessly out the front...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

I did it! (Revisiting a childhood favorite game)

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When I was 12 years old, one of the most impressive simulation games ever to come out for the Commodore 64 was released: MicroProse's Gu...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

A Lesson on Christmas

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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. My dogs, Orion and Meissa (pronounced "MAY-suh"), certainly did. Orion and Meissa. T...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

"A much unsung hero of the Apollo Program"

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In case you missed it (you were living on the moon, you fell into the Kola Superdeep Borehole and had to climb out, your shady travel agent...
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Larry M. Coleman
I'm an airline pilot and a CFI, CFII (CFI - Instrument), and MEI (Multi-engine Instructor). Since I can't get enough of aviation, I also have an AGI (Advanced Ground Instructor) and IGI (Instrument Ground Instructor) certificate. I spent years as the IT guy for a hospital, but after getting tired of feeling like I was living in the movie Office Space, I decided that the only office worth sitting in all day was one a mile in the sky. Now I get paid to, as John Gillespie Magee, Jr. so elegantly put it, "dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings, climb sunward and join the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, and do a hundred things you have not dreamed of." I also teach the Private Pilot Ground School (AVIA 111) at Lorain County Community College, so you can earn college credit while you earn your pilot certificate!
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